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1 Simple Trick To Massively Improve Automation Efficiency

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Date Published
Author
Nikolay Advolodkin
Word Count
655
Company Posts That Month
11
Language
English
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Summary

The article presents a case study on how interactions with only two web elements led to a significant degradation in test execution time, highlighting the importance of optimizing element location timeouts. By keeping the timeout to a maximum of 20 seconds on mobile devices, the inefficiency can be removed, resulting in a substantial cost savings for teams. The solution involves decreasing the amount of time spent waiting for elements to disappear and correcting the logic to wait for elements to appear instead of disappear. This simple yet effective approach can lead to significant improvements in automation efficiency and reliability.

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